St. Louis

Sorry I have no control over exactly where on the page the pictures end up but here is our STL trip in 30 secs or less :) We got in late Saturday night (after the recital) and most of the family was at mom's on Sunday afternoon. The kids got to play with their second cousins (my cousin Scott's kids Derek and Colin) while the adults visited. T found a new pet worm that we eventually convinced her would like to live in Grandpa's garden. It was my cousin Maggie's birthday so we sang to her and had cake! Monday we went to the zoo and Scott, Jamie and the boys met us there. We saw the new dinosaur exhibit and Scott got quite the workout pushing 3 of the kids up Historic hill in the stroller. Wednesday mom and I took the kids to the local water park- G had her first big water slide experience and she and E spent quite a bit of the day on the slides.

Thursday night Uncle Ted had babysitting duty while Mom and Kath and I went out with the girls- Fritz's for dessert YUM! Friday we (me and the kids, Josh and Kath, and Ted) headed out to Six Flags- it was a bit rainy but cleared up later. I have a couple pictures from the beginning of the day and a couple from the end. My camera spent most of the day at under the Ninja (note to self don't go on roller coasters that go upside down with your camera in your pocket) but on a positive note I highly recommend the Olympus Stylus because it survived falling form the roller coaster and siting in the rain all day! G was quite adventurous this trip- she went on the Ninja, the Screaming Eagle, the Highland Fling, and the Mine Train- she was very disappointed that she could go on Batman!

So that was much longer then 30 secs but...